Materials costs also are likely to jump due to the surge in demand for rebuilding homes as well as businesses. Random Lengths, the lumber trade magazine, recently reported the prices of structural wood panels soared This particular year following Hurricanes Harvey as well as Irma.

“If the law of supply as well as demand holds true, prices are going to go up as well as we’re going to see shortages of materials,” said Leff. “the idea’s happening at a time when lumber prices were already starting to go up, to ensure of which won’t help.”

Insured losses for property as well as casualty companies within the conflagration could be more than $4.6 billion, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Sonoma was the hardest hit county in This particular month’s wildfires with some 6,800 homes lost. Another 569 homes in Napa County were destroyed. The two wine country counties each lost at least 5 percent of their housing stock, according to estimates.

Santa Rosa, Sonoma County’s largest city, lost entire neighborhoods, including the suburb of Coffey Park as well as mobile home parks. The fires also left a path of destruction in Fountaingrove, a neighborhood known for its expensive homes.

Overall, the Northern California wildfires burned more than 245,000 acres, destroyed an estimated 8,700 structures as well as killed at least 42 people, according to Cal Fire. As of Wednesday, at least 16 people were still listed as missing in Santa Rosa.